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  1. Re:First bite the hand that feeds you... on AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't · · Score: 2

    More like the scorpion and the frog. Except in this version, the scorpion lets the frog carry it safely to the other side of the river and then goes into a stinging frenzy. Evolution took care of the really dumb ones, I guess.

  2. Re:For fucks sake on AIG Contemplates Joining Stockholder Suit Against US Gov't · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem isn't corporations, it's lawyers. You don't fix that by paying another bunch of lawyers. That just enriches twice as many lawyers. That's how they breed.

    I recommend fire, and lots of it.

  3. Re:Coming soon: on Postal Service Pilots 'Federal Cloud Credential Exchange' · · Score: 2

    I hear the IRS audit random events in FarmVille 2 are brutal.

  4. What "fine"? It's a blackmail demand. on Loss of a Single Laptop Leads to $50k Fine Against Idaho Hospice · · Score: 1

    Fines are issued by independent courts. When some random government department demands money from you, your response should be "make me".

  5. Re:Shitfest of Kuro5hin on Rusty Foster Isn't Dead · · Score: 1

    K5 was doomed when the K5ARP hung up tehir hat.

    Anyway, I'm sure that 2013 will finally see the Collaborative Media Foundation take off.

  6. Re:better explanation on Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Technically correct" is the best kind of correct.

  7. Re:Summary on Reason On How and Why 38 Studios Went Bust · · Score: 1

    Urgh, we had that thread over and over again on the Irrlicht 3D engine forums, with Sparks McGee types rocking up clutching their Great Plan for writing The Ultimate MMO. All they needed were some devs to do the easy bit, writing the code and stuff.

    Granted, better games wouldn't get made without people trying the impossible, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Until you've got a playable alpha, you've got nothing. You can't play an idea.

  8. Re:Procedural Magick on Elite Looks Set To Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Now now, it's rather churlish to insist on remembering history the way it actually happened, rather than the way that it should have happened.

  9. Re:Mommy... on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's nothing ironic or hypocritical about favoring mutual disarmament while not be willing to disarm unilaterally

    Says you. I'm having trouble thinking of anything more hypocritical than declaring that other people shouldn't enjoy the right to defend themselves with guns, while defending yourself with guns.

    Maybe you could suggest something - I'm at a loss.

  10. Re:Video and first thoughts. on Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Explain it to them as configurability and they'll love it.

    Me and thee, maybe. My wife has a Masters in IT and zero interest in [investing|wasting] time configuring her phone though.

  11. Re:other drawings on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    In possession of penis which can be combined with vaginas which is how babby is formed.

  12. Re:I have got fuel and amonium nitrate on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    That's a tautology

    That's a sophistry.

    That's a paddling.

  13. Re:Morons on UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block · · Score: 2

    Well, quite. This "policy" is being driven by the most shrill of Mail Mums. But Daily Dad does like to drink of the beer and look at teh boobies, so - like all pulpit pounders, ever - the rag and its site is rank with hypocrisy.

    Similarly, I recall the Sun running its usual "Find the paedos, spill their blood" stuff in the same issue where they ran a "Phwoar, Charlotte Church wins rear of the rear" wankpiece, using a photo taken when she was 15.

  14. Re:"Will announce later today..." on UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block · · Score: 1

    Apropos, as government policy now appears to be driven entirely by Mumsnet.

    A more shallow, spineless, hypocritical self serving bunch it would be hard to imagine... apart from every other politician, everywhere.

  15. Re:I know you won't want to hear this on Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung · · Score: 1

    And all of that would be very insightful if Nokia's market share hadn't still been rising at the point when Elop told Nokia to grab its ankles and grit its teeth.

    Elop surrendered from a position of strength. To continue the Greek analogy, he had an army with which to hold Thermopylae, and yet still chose to throw down his spear be a minion of Xerxes.

  16. WARNING: theory requires homeopathic leanings on Single Microbe May Have Triggered the "Great Dying" · · Score: 1

    Volcanic eruptions in Siberia = entire planet dusted with nickel.

    Eh, geologist comes up with geological theory. Funding running a bit low?

  17. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    Except for Godwin's Law

  18. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 4, Informative

    More, in most civilised jurisdictions, you or anyone else can use a "nickname" perfectly legally for most purposes, as long as the intent isn't to defraud. The scale runs all the way from "McName -> MacName" through "Elizabeth -> Liz" to "Raymond Luxury-Yacht -> Throatwobbler Mangrove".

  19. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 2

    What jurisdictions are you aware of that allow minors to enter into binding credit contracts?

  20. Re:Bashing it back into shape, rather on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    One nice new feature of Win8 is the inclusion of Hyper-V.

    A selling point is that it helps you run other operating systems?

  21. Re:The acquisition went perfectly. on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 1

    Bingo. Cisco could have poured $500 million down the drain just to shut Linksys down. But they'd have faced the possibility of the management and talent leaving en masse to form a new competitor, plus the costs of "regulatory capturing" the Gubmint TLAs to keep awkward competition questions at bay.

    Instead they drained the life and spirit out of Linksys, the talent will have long since departed in a piecemeal fashion, and now they can safely render down the husk and sell it by the pound for kibbles and bits.

    This is a lesson in embrace, extend (into the cloud) and extinguish.

  22. Re:It's about time. on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 0

    On the other hand, there's a reason Cisco gear is expensive: it's enterprise class. [...] with prices that are borderline ridiculous

    Pick a point, bucko.

  23. Re:Except people who join that program..... on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because this "program" isn't about making the product better, it's just about collecting some numbers - any numbers - that can be used in the sentence "Windows 8 is an astonishing success because X of our users figured out how to do Y within Z seconds."

  24. Re:Prisoners are getting used to being sodomized on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    I've yet to see anything released on Steam that doesn't support XP. I've only just switched to 7 due to a hardware failure, and XP wasn't a barrier at all, except for missing out on DX10/11 support. And that issue itself is really just an argument in favour of devs using OpenGL.

  25. Re:Cores on Australia Plans To Drill 2,000-Year-Old Ice Core In Antarctica · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Glacial period, not ice age. We're in an ice age. We're due for a glacial period. Would you prefer that to warming?